Perfect response to the media + Senators

[Timebuilder]

Not sure why this model hasn't been duplicated but the fact that management is so distrusted at most airlines probably has a lot to do with it.

Maybe this will lead to other new airlines who will base their business model on this successful and progressive approach to labor relations. Maybe this will constitute the "good" that will come out of this industry shakeout.

In this thread there were a lot of insults and inferences. Unfortunately, the environment that supported the idea that the airlines are the "Big Show" is fading quickly, and we are all coming back down to the reality that no matter where we work, we are all pretty much the same ("for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God") and if we take issue with that, the industry is providing an attitude adjustment that will force the idea that many people have managed to avoid.

Fly has the right idea, and so does Don. Your life is defined by how you live it, not by how many passengers or pounds of thrust you have under your hand. If you can convince a company that your posterior in their seat is worth a given amount, then more power to you. If you think that your salary or aircraft makes you someone worth looking up to, or admiring, then your vanity has mislead you the same way that my vanity once mislead me.

We have been blessed, we pilots with an ability, a talent, and an opportunity to enjoy the pleasures of flight. When it's just a paycheck, it is like any other drudgery, and you are poisoned from the inside out.